Michigan State University researchers have made a discovery that could help turn a natural kill switch in plant cells into a "life switch" that helps crops better survive the challenges presented by climate change.
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 31, 2023
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A research team led by Prof. Fan Qiaohui from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with Prof. Luo Yongming from the Institute of Soil ...
Biotechnology
Jun 26, 2023
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UC Riverside scientists have significantly advanced the race to control plant responses to temperature on a rapidly warming planet. Key to this breakthrough is miRNA, a molecule nearly 200,000 times smaller than the width ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 23, 2023
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From regulators to researchers and most industries in between, all eyes are on PFAS. PFAS, per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a class of highly fluorinated human-made compounds that have been used for decades in everything ...
Environment
Feb 27, 2023
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Heat and drought are the utmost limiting abiotic factors that pose a major threat to food security and agricultural production, and are exacerbated by "extreme and rapid" climate change, according to a new paper in CABI Reviews.
Agriculture
Jan 12, 2023
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A mechanism used by a fungal pathogen to promote spread of the devastating cereal crop disease, blast, has been revealed in fine detail.
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 20, 2022
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Crops often face harsh growing environments. Instead of using energy for growth, factors such as disease, extreme temperatures, and salty soils force plants to use it to respond to the resulting stress. This is known as the ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 14, 2022
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At first glance, it's hard to see what gold, iron, lead, arsenic, silver, platinum and tin have in common. A look at the periodic table will clear up the confusion: they are all heavy metals, typically categorized as those ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 27, 2022
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Functional traits have been used to explain plant responses to alterations in water availability. Our understanding of plant responses to biotic and abiotic drivers are largely based on aboveground plant traits. Due to the ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 14, 2022
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While increased carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere encourage plant growth, they also reduce the nutritional value of plants, which can have a larger impact on nutrition and food safety worldwide. Researchers at Michigan ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 8, 2022
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